Women Writings


 
 
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Women Writings

Women write about women: Muslim women like the begums of Bhopal played a notable role in promoting education among women. They founded a primary school for girls at Aligarh. By the 1880s, Indian women began to enter universities. Some of them trained to be doctors, some became teachers. Many women began to write and publish their critical views on the place of women in society. Tarabai Shinde, a woman educated at home at Poona, published a book, Stripurushtulna. ( A comparison between women and men), criticizing the social differences between men and women. Pandita Ramabai, a great scholar of Sanskrit, felt that Hinduism was oppressive towards women, and wrote a book about the miserable lives of upper-caste Hindu women.

 
 


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